different between soporific vs opiate

English

Alternative forms

• soporifick (obsolete)

Etymology

From French soporifique, from Latin sopor (“deep sleep”), from Proto-Indo-European *swep?r, from *swep-. Unrelated to stupor (distinct in Proto-Indo-European).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?p.????f.?k/, /?so?.p????f.?k/

Noun

soporific (plural soporifics)

1. (pharmacology) Something inducing sleep, especially a drug.

2. (figuratively) Something boring or dull.

Translations

Adjective

soporific (comparative more soporific, superlative most soporific)

1. (pharmacology) Tending to induce sleep.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:soporific

   • 1909, Beatrix Potter, The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies:

     It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is “soporific.” I have never felt sleepy after eating lettuces; but then I am not a rabbit. They certainly had a very soporific effect upon the Flopsy Bunnies!
2. (figuratively) Boring, dull.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:boring

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French soporifique.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /so.po?ri.fik/

Adjective

soporific m or n (feminine singular soporific?, masculine plural soporifici, feminine and neuter plural soporifice)

1. soporific

   Synonyms: somnifer, soporifer

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English opiate, from Medieval Latin opi?tus.

Pronunciation

• (UK)
  • (adjective, noun) enPR: ??p?-?t, IPA^(key): /???pi.?t/
  • (verb) enPR: ??p?-?t', IPA^(key): /???pi?e?t/
• (US)
  • (adjective, noun) enPR: ??p?-?t, IPA^(key): /?o?pi.?t/
  • (verb) enPR: ??p?-?t, IPA^(key): /?o?pie?t/

Adjective

opiate (not comparable)

1. Relating to, resembling, or containing opium.
2. (pharmacology) Soporific; inducing sleep or sedation.
3. Deadening; causing apathy or dullness.

Noun

opiate (plural opiates)

1. (pharmacology) A drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium.
2. Something that dulls the senses and induces a false and unrealistic sense of contentment.

   • They chose atheism as an opiate.

Hypernyms

• opioid

Translations

Verb

opiate (third-person singular simple present opiates, present participle opiating, simple past and past participle opiated)

1. (transitive) To treat with an opiate drug.

See also

• codeine
• morphine
• papaverine
• thebaine

Latin

Adjective

opi?te

1. vocative masculine singular of opi?tus

Lithuanian

Noun

opiate m

1. locative singular of opiatas
2. vocative singular of opiatas